Improvement in subsoil pulverizer



GODFREY S.-NEWSOM, OE NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE.

naar; y -latent No. 106,195, auml August 9, r.1870.

IMPROVEMENT 1N SUBsoIL PULVERIZER..

The Schedule referredto in these Letters Patent` and makingv partof the same To .all whom, 'it may concern f Be it known that I, GODFREY lS. N EWsoM, of Nashville, in the county of Davidson and State of Tennessee, have invented -a new and usefnllmprovement in Snbsoil Inlverizers; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof', which will enable others skilled in the artto make and use the same, referencefbeing had to the accompanying drawing forming partl ofthis specification. i

Figure 1 is a vertical longitudinal section of my improved subsoil pnlverizer, taken through the line x x, fig. 2

Figure 2 is a top vi'ewof the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding part-s. n

My invention relates to subsoil-plows, which cut and break the earth without turning it,'and consists in the arrangement of a set of cutting-points and Y Shanks on a rotaryY shaft.

A are the thills, the rear 4ends of which 'are atp tached to the axle B. s

into the teethfof the small gear-wheel H, attached to the shaft E.

To the gear-wheel H is attached, or with it is securely connected, the` large gear-wheel I, the teeth of which mesh into the teeth ofthe small gear-wheel J, attached to the shaft F.

` To the shaft F are attacheda series of curved rai dial arms, K, the forward or concave sides of which are beveled ol, as shown in Ifigs. 1 and 2, so that they i may pass through the ground easily.

To the outer ends of the bars, arms, or knives K are 'securely attache-d the points or cutters L, by the ac- `tion of which, as theypass through the ground, the

soil is finely pulverized, the machine being so arranged that ca ch cutter will operate upon the ground about an inch in front of the path ot' the preceding one.

rear standards that support the seat N. The forward partof the lever M has `a pin attached to it,

which passes through one or the other of the'holes I claimI as .new and desire to secure by Letters Patf ent- The arrangement, in a snbsofil pulverizer, and on a rotating tool-stock thereof, of'a series of triangular plow-points, L, sharpened on two sides,and Shanks- K, drawn to an'edge on their front sides, all for the purpose of cutting-and breaking up without turning the soil.

GODFREY S. NEWSOM. Witnesses:

W. T. GLASGOW, JESSE THOMAS M is a lever, the rear 4end of which is connectedwith the shaft F, and which is pivoted to one of t the 

